Improvement in machines for cutting cracklings



A. SMmL Machine for Cutting Cracklngs.

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UNITED STATES PATENT: OFFICE AMoE SMITH, 0E CINCINNATI, CHIC.

IMPROVEMENTIN MACHINES FOR CUTTING CRA czllnlslcas."`

specification forming pais of Letters Patent No. 61 ,884-, dated February 5, 1367. l ,l

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, AMOR SMITH, of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Gutters for Reducing Gracklings and other pressed animal matter to ait con- The same letters are employed in both iigures in the indication of iden tical parts.

A is the shaft, which I shall ordinarily set horizontally and operate by mechanism which I will hereafter describe in a separate applica- Gis a circular plate attached to the shaft and revolved by it. This plate has a face with an even surface, from which project the cutting-teeth C, which, as shown, are formed :la l I with flaring sides and concave fa-ces, soas to form sharp cutting edges;` These `teeth pas through the plate, and are held in" `placeby i thenutsD. 1 f p Cracklings are iirstpressed on being taken i from the kettle, so as to extract allfthelar that can be saved. They are thus compresse into solid blocks, and are untfor use. B`y subjecting them to theactionoi'; my cutter they are reduced toltit condition to be used and become valuable in agriculture. f I A What I claim as` myzinyention, and desir to secure by Letters Patentpis-e y `1` A cutter for reducing compressed anima matter, constructed substantially as described In testimony `whereof` Iphave signed` y name to this specification inI the presence o two subscribing witnesses.` l l f vr Witnesses: .l x A AMOR SMITH, Jr., 1 E. GILLIGAN. .l l 

